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Book Neighborhood Decline and Downtown Renewal

Download or read book Neighborhood Decline and Downtown Renewal written by Nancy Kleniewski and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Neighborhoods in the Urban Economy

Download or read book Neighborhoods in the Urban Economy written by Benjamin Goldstein and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Neighborhood Renewal

Download or read book Neighborhood Renewal written by Phillip L. Clay and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Saving America s Cities

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  • Author : Lizabeth Cohen
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2019-10-01
  • ISBN : 0374721602
  • Pages : 331 pages

Download or read book Saving America s Cities written by Lizabeth Cohen and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Bancroft Prize In twenty-first-century America, some cities are flourishing and others are struggling, but they all must contend with deteriorating infrastructure, economic inequality, and unaffordable housing. Cities have limited tools to address these problems, and many must rely on the private market to support the public good. It wasn’t always this way. For almost three decades after World War II, even as national policies promoted suburban sprawl, the federal government underwrote renewal efforts for cities that had suffered during the Great Depression and the war and were now bleeding residents into the suburbs. In Saving America’s Cities, the prizewinning historian Lizabeth Cohen follows the career of Edward J. Logue, whose shifting approach to the urban crisis tracked the changing balance between government-funded public programs and private interests that would culminate in the neoliberal rush to privatize efforts to solve entrenched social problems. A Yale-trained lawyer, rival of Robert Moses, and sometime critic of Jane Jacobs, Logue saw renewing cities as an extension of the liberal New Deal. He worked to revive a declining New Haven, became the architect of the “New Boston” of the 1960s, and, later, led New York State’s Urban Development Corporation, which built entire new towns, including Roosevelt Island in New York City. Logue’s era of urban renewal has a complicated legacy: Neighborhoods were demolished and residents dislocated, but there were also genuine successes and progressive goals. Saving America’s Cities is a dramatic story of heartbreak and destruction but also of human idealism and resourcefulness, opening up possibilities for our own time.

Book Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods

Download or read book Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods written by William Dennis Keating and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1950s and the advance of urban renewal, local governments and urban policy have focused heavily on the central business district. However, such development has all but ignored the inner-city neighborhoods that continue to struggle in the shadows of high-rise America. This analysis of urban neighborhoods in the United States from 1960 to 1995 presents fifteen essays by scholars of urban planning and development. Together they show how urban neighborhoods can and must be preserved as economic, cultural, and political centers.

Book The Art of Revitalization

Download or read book The Art of Revitalization written by Sean Zielenbach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-05-03 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on two Chicago neighbourhoods as case studies, this text examines the regional and national factors that affect urban development as well as the specific local characteristics that impact revitalization.

Book Back to the City

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  • Author : Shirley Bradway Laska
  • Publisher : Elsevier
  • Release : 2016-06-23
  • ISBN : 1483142205
  • Pages : 375 pages

Download or read book Back to the City written by Shirley Bradway Laska and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back to the City: Issues in Neighborhood Renovation focuses on the policies, social issues, and approaches involved in the residential revitalization of inner cities. The book first offers information on an urban land institute survey of private-market housing renovation in central cities and reinvestment by long-time residents and newcomers. Considerations include character of neighborhood renewal, reasons for reinvestment timing, and an overview of the experience on private renewal. The selection also takes a look at the racial and socioeconomic changes in central-city housing, as well as changes in racial successions, limited support for urban revitalization, and characteristics of transition households. The publication reviews the case studies done at neighborhood resettlements in Washington, D.C., New Orleans, Columbus, Seattle, Charleston, and Philadelphia. Topics include residential mobility of new homeowners; neighborhoods in transitions; displacement; satisfaction with the neighborhood; contrasting conceptions of the neighborhood; and historic preservation and neighborhood. The selection is a dependable reference for geographers, urban planners, and sociologists.

Book Neighborhood Revitalization

Download or read book Neighborhood Revitalization written by Roger S. Ahlbrandt and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Downtowns

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  • Author : Michael A. Burayidi
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-10-16
  • ISBN : 1134573464
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Downtowns written by Michael A. Burayidi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection evaluates the various strategies that different cities have used when attempting to economically revitalize downtown areas.

Book Urban Revitalization

Download or read book Urban Revitalization written by Carl Grodach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following decades of neglect and decline, many US cities have undergone a dramatic renaissance. From New York to Nashville and Pittsburgh to Portland governments have implemented innovative redevelopment strategies to adapt to a globally integrated, post-industrial economy and cope with declining industries, tax bases, and populations. However, despite the prominence of new amenities in revitalized neighborhoods, spectacular architectural icons, and pedestrian friendly entertainment districts, the urban comeback has been highly uneven. Even thriving cities are defined by a bifurcated population of creative class professionals and a low-wage, low-skilled workforce. Many are home to diverse and thriving immigrant communities, but also contain economically and socially segregated neighborhoods. They have transformed high-profile central city brownfields, but many disadvantaged neighborhoods continue to grapple with abandoned and environmentally contaminated sites. As urban cores boom, inner-ring suburban areas increasingly face mounting problems, while other shrinking cities continue to wrestle with long-term decline. The Great Recession brought additional challenges to planning and development professionals and community organizations alike as they work to maintain successes and respond to new problems. It is crucial that students of urban revitalization recognize these challenges, their impacts on different populations, and the implications for crafting effective and equitable revitalization policy. Urban Revitalization: Remaking Cities in a Changing World will be a guide in this learning process. This textbook will be the first to comprehensively and critically synthesize the successful approaches and pressing challenges involved in urban revitalization. The book is divided into five sections. In the introductory section, we set the stage by providing a conceptual framework to understand urban revitalization that links a political economy perspective with an appreciation of socio-cultural factors in explaining urban change. Stemming from this, we will explain the significance of revitalization and present a summary of the key debates, issues and conflicts surrounding revitalization efforts. Section II will examine the historical causes for decline in central city and inner-ring suburban areas and shrinking cities and, building from the conceptual framework, discuss theory useful to explain the factors that shape contemporary revitalization initiatives and outcomes. Section III will introduce students to the analytical techniques and key data sources for urban revitalization planning. Section IV will provide an in-depth, criticaldiscussion of contemporary urban revitalization policies, strategies, and projects. This section will offer a rich set of case studies that contextualize key themes and strategic areas across a range of contexts including the urban core, central city neighborhoods, suburban areas, and shrinking cities. Lastly, Section V concludes by reflecting on the current state of urban revitalization planning and the emerging challenges the field must face in the future. Urban Revitalization will integrate academic and policy research with professional knowledge and techniques. Its key strength will be the combination of a critical examination of best practices and innovative approaches with an overview of the methods used to understand local situations and urban revitalization processes. A unique feature will be chapter-specific case studies of contemporary urban revitalization projects and questions geared toward generatingclassroom discussion around key issues. The book will be written in an accessible style and thoughtfully organized to provide graduate and upper-level undergraduate students with a comprehensive resource that will also serve as a reference guide for professionals

Book Gentrification  Displacement  and Neighborhood Revitalization

Download or read book Gentrification Displacement and Neighborhood Revitalization written by J. John Palen and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing an empirical, objective approach to a topic that has often been the source of emotional and uninformed controversy, Gentrification, Displacement and Neighborhood Revitalization provides an introduction to major issues in urban revitalization, new research findings, and a discussion of theoretical perspectives. This is the first broad-based survey of a scattered literature that has not been readily accessible. The book's comprehensive introduction leads to informative analyses of new research by sociologists, planners, geographers, and urban studies faculty. A concluding essay examines the present state of knowledge about gentrification and discusses its implications, suggesting future developments and trends.

Book Community Builders

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  • Author : Gordana Rabrenovic
  • Publisher : Temple University Press
  • Release : 2010-04-20
  • ISBN : 1439903476
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Community Builders written by Gordana Rabrenovic and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing relevant urban issues, a careful look at the relationships between neighborhood associations and development.

Book Rebuilding Urban Neighborhoods

Download or read book Rebuilding Urban Neighborhoods written by William Dennis Keating and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-08-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports on progress in the fight against the ingrained poverty and social problems of many of the USA's most devastated areas. Extensive case studies are provided from Atlanta, Camden, Chicago, Cleveland, East St. Louis, Los Angeles, Miami and New York City.

Book Analysis of Neighborhood Decline in Urban Areas

Download or read book Analysis of Neighborhood Decline in Urban Areas written by George Sternlieb and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Neighborhood Decline

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  • Author : Ronald van Kempen
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-10-18
  • ISBN : 1351720600
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book Neighborhood Decline written by Ronald van Kempen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global financial and economic crisis that hit the world since 2008 has affected the lives of many people all over the world and resulted in declining incomes, rising unemployment, foreclosures, forced residential moves, and cut-backs in government expenditure. The extent to which the crisis has affected urban neighborhoods and has led to rising intra-urban inequalities, has not yet received much attention. The implemented budget cuts and austerity programs of national and local governments are likely to have hit some neighborhoods more than others. The authors of this this book, which come from a variety of countries and disciplines, show that the economic crisis has affected poor neighborhoods more severely than more affluent ones. The tendency of the state to retreat from these neighborhoods has negative consequences for their residents and may even nullify the investments that have been made in many poor neighborhoods in the recent past. This book was originally published as a special issue of Urban Geography.

Book An Analysis of Neighborhood Revitalization Efforts in Middletown s Downtown and North End Neighborhood

Download or read book An Analysis of Neighborhood Revitalization Efforts in Middletown s Downtown and North End Neighborhood written by Jake Dominic Fusco and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process of urban/neighborhood revitalization involves the economic and physical upgrade of disinvested or blighted urban areas. Over time, these methods have come to involve a wide variety of approaches and practices that seek to reinvest in struggling districts and neighborhoods. The redevelopment of brownfields and the provision of mixed-income housing have been two critical tools of urban revitalization in the United States. Despite the success and popularity of these approaches, criticism has arisen due to the potential displacement of poorer residents (called "gentrification") as a result effective revitalization. The causes, outcomes and methods of avoiding gentrification are widely-debated in both the literature and in public settings. Regardless of actual gentrification occurrence, the perception that it could occur has fostered resistance to revitalization efforts. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, this research analyzes urban revitalization in Middletown, Connecticut through the use of brownfield redevelopment and mixed-income housing development. In analyzing this case study, the researcher investigated whether or not these two methods of urban revitalization are linked with a process of gentrification. This research also addresses how the formation of citizen groups can shape neighborhood revitalization processes through representing the residents of a changing city.

Book Neighbourhood Policy and Programmes

Download or read book Neighbourhood Policy and Programmes written by Naomi Carmon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, comprised of original contributions by experienced urban planners and distinguished social scientists, sets forth the accumulated experience directed at improving the quality of life in our cities through neighbourhood programs. Policy issues, housing programs and job development plans, along with organizational innovations aimed at redistribution of power, are described and evaluated.